Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2025 UAB Blazers football team will represent the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2025 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blazers are expected to be led by Trent Dilfer in his third year as the head coach.
The 2024 UAB Blazers football team represented the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the American Athletic Conference (AAC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Blazers were led by Trent Dilfer in his second year as the head coach. The Blazers played their home games at Protective Stadium, located in Birmingham, Alabama.
UAB football began with the play of an organized club football team in 1989. [5] After two years competing as a club football team, on March 13, 1991, UAB President Charles McCallum and athletic director Gene Bartow announced that the university would compete in football as an NCAA Division III team beginning in the fall of 1991, with Jim Hilyer serving as the first head coach.
Trent Dilfer is getting a third season at UAB. Athletic director Mark Ingram said Tuesday that the former NFL QB would be retained for another season. The Blazers went 3-9 in 2024 after a 4-8 ...
Dilfer, a former NFL quarterback in his second season as UAB coach, explained to his team that in the NFL players are represented and supported by a union. “Right now, you have no help ...
Army will host Alabama Birmingham, East Carolina, Rice and Texas San Antonio in 2024 football season. FAU, North Texas, Temple, Tulsa on road slate.
Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Blazers represent the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the NCAA's Conference USA (C-USA). The football program returned in 2017 after a two-season hiatus. [3] UAB began competing in intercollegiate football in 1991. [1]
Already a participating member of Conference USA in other sports, on November 13, 1996, UAB was admitted to the league as a football playing member effective the 1999 season. [ 7 ] The longest tenured head coach of the Blazers was Watson Brown who led UAB for 12 seasons between 1995 and 2006. [ 8 ]